A Taste of Fame
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In a large bowl, combine the first nine ingredients. In second bowl, whisk the eggs, sour cream, butter, and vanilla. Stir into dry ingredients just until moistened. Fold in apple and cranberries. Spray muffin tin with cooking spray then fill each cup two-thirds full with batter.
Topping Directions
Combine brown sugar and flour. Cut in butter until mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Sprinkle over batter. Bake at 375 degrees for 20–25 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean. Cool for 5 minutes before removing from pans to wire racks.
Yield: 18.
Lisa Leann’s Cook’s Notes
This is one of those fussy recipes that’s worth all the work.
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Fried Okra
2 pounds okra pods
1 teaspoon salt in pan of water
2 eggs, slightly beaten
2 tablespoons milk
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup cornmeal
1/2 cup vegetable oil
Wash okra and cut off stem ends. Slice into 1/2- to 1-inch lengths. In a medium saucepan bring salted water to a boil. Add okra and cook about 8 to 10 minutes until almost tender. Drain. In separate bowl, whisk together eggs, milk, and salt. Put cornmeal in a shallow dish. Dip okra pods into the cornmeal, and then into beaten egg mixture, then back into the cornmeal again. Fry okra in hot vegetable oil in skillet until browned on all sides.
Serves 6.
Donna’s Cook’s Notes
The only place I’d ever had fried okra was a cafeteria in Denver, but Vonnie made this for me one night after we got home from New York. Delicious!
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Metric Conversion Guide
VOLUME
U.S. Units Metric
teaspoon/ ml 2
teaspoon 1 ml 5
tablespoon 1 ml 20
cup / ml 60
cup. / ml 80
cup / ml 125
cup. / ml 170
cup / ml 190
cup 1 ml 250
quart 1 liter 1
TEMPERATURE
Fahrenheit Celsius
250 120
275 140
300 150
325 160
350 180
375 190
400 200
425 220
450 230
475 240
500 260
LENGTH
Inches Centimeters
1 2.5
2 5.0
3 7.5
4 10.0
5 12.5
6 15.0
7 17.5
8 20.5
9 23.0
10 25.5
11 28.0
12 30.5
13 33.0
14 35.5
15 38.0
WEIGHT
U.S. Units Metric
1 ounce 30 grams
2 ounces 60 grams
3 ounces 90 grams
4 ounces (/ pound) 125 grams
8 ounces (/ pound) 225 grams
16 ounces (1 pound) 500 grams
Note: The recipes in this cookbook have not been developed or tested using metric measures. When converting recipes to metric, some variations in quality may be noted.
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Meet the Women of the
Potluck Catering Club
Evie Vesey—The new wife of Sheriff Vernon Vesey and founder of the Potluck Club. Will Evie win back the right to rule the club?
Lisa Leann Lambert—Owner of the town’s new wedding boutique, High Country Weddings, and president of the Potluck Catering business. Will The Great Party Showdown eliminate her ability to pull her marriage off the rocks?
Goldie Dippel—Legal secretary married to Coach Dippel, a man with a roving eye. Will Goldie continue to try to save what’s left of her marriage or will fate have the last say?
Donna Vesey—Deputy sheriff who fights for justice and seeks out the truth, as she tries to unlock her conflicted heart.
Lizzie Prattle—Sober high school librarian who’s on the lookout for her team.
Vonnie Westbrook—Retired nurse who embraced her secret past when her birth son knocked on her door.
Linda Evans Shepherd has been married thirty years to Paul and has two young adult children. Linda also serves as the CEO of Right to the Heart Ministries and is an international speaker and media personality. Currently, she’s a popular guest host appearing on Denver Celebration (Daystar Television); channel host for Web TV 4 Women; host of Web TV 4 Women’s programs, Be a Miracle, and Cooking Up Wonders; co-host of Miracle Quest, a popular internet radio program; publisher of Right to the Heart of Women electronic magazine; founder and CEO of AWSA (Advanced Writers and Speakers Association); and host of the webinar platform Miracle Lane, where she conducts live online classes.
Linda is also a bestselling author and has written 30 books, including co-authoring the The Potuck Club and The Potluck Catering Club series. Linda’s nonfiction book Share Jesus Without Fear, co-written with Bill Fay, will soon be in over 100 languages. Look for Linda’s book When You Don’t Know What to Pray from Revell in the spring of 2010.
To find out the latest on Linda or to book Linda to speak at your event, go to www.VisitLinda.com.
Award-winning author and speaker Eva Marie Everson is a Southern gal who’s not that crazy about being in the kitchen, unless it’s to eat! She has been married to a wonderful man, Dennis, for three decades and is a mother and grandmother to the most amazing children in the world.
Eva’s writing career and ministry began in 1999 when a friend asked her what she’d want to do for the Lord, if she could do anything at all. “Write and speak,” she said. And so it began.
Since that time, she has written, co-written, contributed to, and edited and compiled a number of works, including the awardwinning Reflections of God’s Holy Land; a Personal Journey Through Israel (which includes her photography among the spectacular photographic works), The Potluck Club/Potluck Catering Club series (with Linda Evans Shepherd), Sex, Lies, and the Media, and Sex, Lies, and High School (co-written with her amazing daughter Jessica). Eva Marie has a new series of Southern fiction novels, the first being Things Left Unspoken, with This Fine Life releasing in 2010.
Eva Marie is both a graduate of Andersonville Theological Seminary and a mentor with the Jerry B. Jenkins Christian Writers Guild. Eva Marie speaks nationally and internationally about her passion: drawing believers to the heartbeat of God. In 2002 she was named AWSA’s first Member of the Year. Also that year she was one of six journalists chosen to visit Israel for a special ten-day press tour. She was forever changed.